Taverham and Drayton
Town · 14,455 residents
67Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 26 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Taverham and Drayton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Taverham and Drayton a good place to live?
Taverham and Drayton scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (96) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Taverham and Drayton in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Taverham and Drayton
Detached houses on generous plots, hedges rather than walls, cars on driveways rather than the street — Taverham and Drayton reads as the kind of edge-of-Norwich settlement people move to rather than pass through. The average resident here is pushing into their late forties, well above the national median age, and the streets have that settled, unhurried feel that comes with a population who mostly bought their house some years ago and aren't going anywhere.
The numbers back up the impression: this sits in the ninth decile for deprivation nationally, meaning it's among the more comfortable corners of the country, and a median house price of £315,000 is actually 6.6% higher than the wider South Norfolk district it belongs to, even though it undercuts the East of England average. Schools carry real weight in the local story — Ghost Hill Infant and Nursery School holds an Outstanding rating, and Taverham High School, the senior school most children funnel into, is rated Good with a Progress 8 score sitting right at the national baseline. Transport is the one flat note in an otherwise strong picture: connectivity and transport both grade around average-to-below, so this is a place built around the car, not the station, and anyone counting on a rail commute into Norwich should look elsewhere first.
Green space is genuinely woven into daily life rather than an afterthought — 25 separate plots across the area add up to a meaningful chunk of open land relative to the population, more generous per head than the regional average, and it shows in the pattern of dog walkers and pushchairs you'll see most days. The trade-off is nightlife and eating out, which grades only as C; this isn't a place for people who want a strip of restaurants on the doorstep, but for a quiet evening and a decent pub it does the job. Crime is low and falling — the safety grade is the highest possible, trending in the right direction over recent years — though violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of all recorded incidents, worth knowing even if the overall count stays modest for a population this size.